SMRs

Ontario Power Generation should build an energy system based on renewable technologies rather than importing nuclear reactors from an unreliable French utility.

Edmonton's Capital Power Corp. and Ontario Power Generation are joining together to assess the feasibility of developing small modular nuclear reactors to help power Alberta's electricity grid.

Dr. Donald (Moll) Flanders had dreams of peace as the Manhattan Project’s head of computation. But unlike his boss, Robert Oppenheimer, Moll did not live long enough to crusade for global abolition of the atomic bomb — and of all forms of warfare. 

Next-generation nuclear technology “has no part in fighting the climate emergency,” Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said Tuesday as a handful of MPs joined anti-nuclear activists to voice concern about the federal government’s intention to expand nuclear power. 

Desperate to reverse its declining fortunes, the nuclear industry began touting a new generation of reactors it dubs SMRs — using the climate crisis as a cover.

The pressing global need to slash emissions in the face of a growing climate crisis is driving renewed interest in nuclear power — and few places more so than in Canada's oilsands.

Amid complex suggestions for ways to transition off diesel, is a community-led program in Black Tickle with a simple idea: high-efficiency wood stoves.

Coming into operation in the 1980s, the station is one of four in Canada and the only nuclear power station outside of Ontario.

The money will go to the development of Westinghouse Electric Canada Inc.’s eVinci micro-reactor, a small modular reactor the company says will “bring carbon-free, transportable, safe and scalable energy anywhere Canada requires reliable, clean energy.” 

Climate change will almost certainly be top of mind in the upcoming election after a summer of intense heat waves has left apartment dwellers roasting with no relief and wildfires are sweeping through Ontario and B.C.’s rural communities.

Canada remains steadfast in its commitment to advance nuclear energy and, more specifically, small modular reactors as part of its clean energy transformation, writes Steve Threlfall, general manager of U-Battery.

To date, not a single small modular reactor has been built in Canada, but no matter, the technology is the current darling of nuclear power circles — much to the dismay of environmentalists who oppose nuclear energy.

An Ontario nuclear power company is getting $20 million from Ottawa to try to get its new small modular reactor in line with Canada’s safety regulations.